The Book in the order it was written
TimelineContentsSection X. Discoveries That Illuminate the Text · 1896-1979

The Great Christian Codices

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Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, both fourth century, are the oldest substantially complete Greek Bibles. Sinaiticus was identified at St Catherine's Monastery on Sinai by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1844 and 1859, and is now split across four institutions; it is fully digitized and freely readable online. Its contents are worth noting for canon history: it includes the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas within the New Testament, and its Old Testament carries books that later canons divided over. Vaticanus has been in the Vatican Library since at least 1475. Together with the papyri, they are the basis of the modern critical Greek text.

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